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Charon is the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology. He transports souls of the dead across the River Styx, from the land of the living to the land of the dead. Every passenger is charged with golden coins or they are stranded on the riverbanks for eternity. His position has put him into contact with many super-heroes and other mythological figures. Charon was first adapted to DC Comics by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman in More Fun Comics #56 (1940).

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The sordid ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. His boat would herald the newly departed across the river Styx and Acheron into Hades, the Greek underworld.

Charon In Greek mythology is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased who had received the rites of burial, across the river Styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred…

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Charon the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology

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